A Washington-based company announced this week that it would be locating a 46,000-square-foot entertainment center into the McCarthy Ranch Marketplace.

In a press release issued on Tuesday, Big Al’s — which bills itself as a family-friendly sports bar, arcade and entertainment venue — confirmed the lease signing in McCarthy Ranch Marketplace, which looks to open for business by late 2018.

“Our first venture into the California market has been nothing short of a success and we’ve been actively pursuing additional locations in high-growth, employer-rich, and under-served communities for a concept like ours.” said Daniel Kirkwood, Big Al’s president and CEO, in the statement.

According to the statement, Big Al’s Silicon Valley, planned at 15 Ranch Drive, will be company’s fifth center and second in California; Big Al’s opened in the Inland Empire in March 2017.

“Big Al’s will begin construction on the former Border’s Bookstore and Ramos Furniture spaces as early as this spring at 15 Ranch Drive between San Jose and Milpitas with a tentatively scheduled opening in late fall 2018,” the statement reads. “In today’s marketplace where big box retailers are closing doors and developments are seeking business-savvy and immersion- and experience-oriented consumer traffic-driving concepts, Big Al’s checks each of these boxes for landlords and developers. And the Big Al’s Silicon Valley opportunity checks our boxes as well.”

According to the company, Big Al’s Silicon Valley will maintain “the Big Al’s offering of upscale bowling, state-of-the-art arcade gaming, a 21 years of age and older private bar and game room, and stadium-like Sports Bar & Grill centered around its 55-foot HD laser projection screen.”

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This week, Milpitas city officials could not be reached for comment to confirm this project, its status or its intended location in McCarthy Ranch.

Big Al’s, which first opened in Vancouver, Wash. in 2006, claims construction of Big Al’s Silicon Valley will spur a freshening of McCarthy Ranch Marketplace by landlord “TMS McCarthy LP that will also benefit retail neighbors like PetSmart, Best Buy & Starbucks, as well as bring 150 to 175 full and part-time jobs to the Silicon Valley community,” the statement reads.

The announcement that a new company would be locating in McCarthy Ranch later this year follows news last year that a planned $100 million Asian mall-hotel project for the same site had effectively died.

“The Pacific Mall project, from my understanding, is no longer an active project,” Milpitas Planning Director Bradley Misner told the Post last August. At that time, Misner confirmed the Pacific Mall project site development and conditional use permits lapsed that same month.

Toronto-based The Torgan Group, which purchased McCarthy Ranch Marketplace for $38 million in early 2012 with the hope of reinventing it as a new shopping destination with an adjacent hotel, could not be reached for comment by press time.

The developer had extensive history of constructing malls in Canada. That includes developing the 270,000-square-foot Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario, which the company touts as the largest Asian-themed mall in North America.

In 2014, The Torgan Group — calling itself TMS McCarthy Inc. for the purposes of its Milpitas project — received City Council approval for a conditional use permit, general plan amendments and a final environmental impact report to allow the Pacific Mall project to proceed at 11 to 111 Ranch Drive.

TMS McCarthy had wanted to build 284,587 square feet of retail space for individual sellers of boutique clothing, electronic goods and other merchandise in a two-level mall, as well as a 250-room hotel and an 835-stall underground parking garage.

The project was supposed to increase floor space by a net of 304,726 square feet, including the hotel. As proposed, space was to be sold to individual owners as condominium units for small business retail and commercial uses.

According to the developer, construction of Pacific Mall was supposed to be done by 2017. However, TMS McCarthy returned to the city last year asking for more time to advance the project.

In February 2016, the Planning Commission voted to extend for 18 months the developer’s use permits and zoning changes. The city’s one-time extension was to end by August 2017.

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